KANT-O-CELLE QUEST: WE ALL DIE ON A YELLOW SUBMARINE
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The first shots are exchanged at twenty-three hundred yards.
Fire and smoke flash in the toothed maw of the low-slung obsidian horror cruising through the misty waters. Some cold, detached part of your mind traces the contrail of the shell as it rips through the fog, arcing high before plummeting right for you -
- the blast lifts 305 from below, jolting the deck against your feet. The hiss-whumph of compressed air hits your ears again as the weapons officer sings out; “Tube Three - fish in the water!”
“Hard to port and emergency deep!” you cry. 305 responds adroitly to the helm as she noses into the Sunda Strait, her wake foaming as she picks up speed entering her true element.
Hisss-whump. “Tube Four - fish in water!”
You shuffle around the deck as you turn with the periscope, keeping the cross-hairs on the fog-shrouded shape of the monster, now careening into a hard turn - he's heard the high-speed screws screaming his way.
Six. Seven Eigh- the muzzle blast slapping aside the morning mist; the scream of a high-velocity shell tearing over the conning tower close enough to hear through the pressure hull.
“ALL STOP!” you demand hoarsely, “and hard to starboard!” Slapping the scope's handles flush with the shaft, you send it sinking down into its recess in the floor - it can only give you away now. You brace against the chart table, staring down at it as your nape shrivels, sensing the incoming salvo you're trying to dodge.
Hiss-whump. “Tube Fi-” the warrant officer's cut short by another blastwave that goes ringing through the hull from bow to keel.
“The hell is that?” Wei asks you. “K-guns?”
“ASW shells,” you reply grimly. “Helm, flank speed. Make course two-two-zero.”
“Shells?” Wei says quietly, eyes fixed on the computer plot tracking your outbound fish. The display's strictly COTS stuff, and even if it wasn't there's only so much data to be wrung out of your boats old hydrophones. It's all riding on the weapons officers now, their eyes grimly fixed on oscilloscopes as they grip small joysticks white-knuckled, controlling their fish on unspooling wires. The software can supplant their hydrophones for your boats, but they can't compare or collate data. There's only one thing for sure - the Abyssals are running.
“Blunt-nosed, subsonic,” you reply quietly. “High arc trajectory, won't skip or break up. Hits you at periscope depth. If he'd had common loaded, we'd be dead now.”
Your XO turns his wrist over to check his watch. The destroyers slowed down to track you when they heard you start cavitating at depth - now they're accelerating to flank, trying to outrun your fish. Your sonarman heard them making close to 40 knots, earlier - and your fish top out at thirty-five. You can't turn with the wires unspooling, and you can't reload, either.
There's nothing to do but wait.
The men managing fish one and two lean forward in their small chairs, sweat trickling down their face as they burn the oscilloscope’s wavering line into their eyes. Small lights come on, telling them what the torpedo's automatic guidance and 305s computer wants to chase - but they both over-ride it, pushing their joysticks sideways to line up on the smaller, steadier signal. #1s operator releases a stale breath as his screen goes dark - and slumps as #2 station's operator follows suit. They both turn towards the sonar console.
Your head sonarman swivels back and gives them a solemn nod.
Two minutes later the warrant officer on station five slumps in his chair, looking sick. He doesn't have to say anything - his fish ran out of juice. Six follows next. Then four - and three.
“Got one,” your XO breathes. It's as good an epitaph as any Ming boat can hope for.
“Range? you ask quietly.
“Seven-thousand or so,” your sonarman replies quietly.
“Helm, ahead-two thirds,” you order. The confirmation drifts by your ears as you stare at the lines on the computerized chart, denoting the bearings of the incoming signals and their roughly-estimated range. The other two are coming for you, and they're pissed off, their sonar banging away on active, hunting for you.
But even active sonar works best if you slow down to hear the echoes better. And they'll be loath to slow much, lest they catch more torpedoes. And they must have lost track of you during that mad dash at flank with you in their baffles.
You eyeball the distance as sonar pulses ring off your boat's old hull, sweat trickling down your face as you calculate reload times. They'll be on top of you before you can reload the bow tubes, but you've still got fish astern.
Two. Two, exactly.
[ ] Let your sub sit silent on the sandy bottom while your position is still somewhat ambiguous to reduce your active sonar signature - and wait. You've only got two fish left - you've got to make every shot count, from close range. If they had standoff ASW aside from those shells, they'd have used them by now - and the shells only work on boats at periscope depth.
[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
inb4 navyfag :(
>>150592
Best 2hu is hard as hell to find.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>150605
[ ] Let your sub sit silent on the sandy bottom while your position is still somewhat ambiguous to reduce your active sonar signature - and wait. You've only got two fish left - you've got to make every shot count, from close range. If they had standoff ASW aside from those shells, they'd have used them by now - and the shells only work on boats at periscope depth.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>150605
[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>150605
>[ ] Let your sub sit silent on the sandy bottom while your position is still somewhat ambiguous to reduce your active sonar signature - and wait. You've only got two fish left - you've got to make every shot count, from close range. If they had standoff ASW aside from those shells, they'd have used them by now - and the shells only work on boats at periscope depth.
Fuuuuuuuuck
[x] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
Hiding ain't gonna work when we're this shallow - Though if anyone has any more proactive suggestions than waiting for help, I'd love to hear em. I wouldn't put it past AESAN to actually be deaf.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>150605
>Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them
Letting the sub just sit there is ASKING to be depth charged, and in water this shallow, there's little chance they'll not hit us, and in this noise, we have a better chance at running and drawing them off, besides we don't know if abyssal air is in play or not
I thought we were supposed to be getting Settle today?
>>150643
that's later in the thread
>>150643
>trusting the greek
also I thought he said saturday
>>150605
>[X] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>150605
>[ ] Let your sub sit silent on the sandy bottom while your position is still somewhat ambiguous to reduce your active sonar signature - and wait. You've only got two fish left - you've got to make every shot count, from close range. If they had standoff ASW aside from those shells, they'd have used them by now - and the shells only work on boats at periscope depth.
Might not be any cavalry coming, but if they charge in like we're hoping to get to depth charge range 2 torps will be all we need
>>150605
>[x] Let your sub sit silent on the sandy bottom while your position is still somewhat ambiguous to reduce your active sonar signature - and wait. You've only got two fish left - you've got to make every shot count, from close range. If they had standoff ASW aside from those shells, they'd have used them by now - and the shells only work on boats at periscope depth.
And in honor of the first session I've been able to attend since the last time I come bearing a picture, and a gift for the end of the thread.
>>150643
>>132641
>Well, that should do it for tonight! I'll have the conclusion to our omake written up to post on Wednesday, as well as another update for the vote from the last "normal" thread vis a vis Settle and Parker.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
It goes against EVERY instinct I learned playing 688 Attack Sub and SSN-21 Seawolf back in my misspent youth, but... this is a situation where being a hole in the water would be fatal. And unlike those, the people the noise attracts are going to HELP you, not try to kill you...
>>150605
[x] Let your sub sit silent on the sandy bottom while your position is still somewhat ambiguous to reduce your active sonar signature - and wait. You've only got two fish left - you've got to make every shot count, from close range. If they had standoff ASW aside from those shells, they'd have used them by now - and the shells only work on boats at periscope depth.
i am ninja i am a tree you do not see me
>>150643
That update's already written, but the submarine battle just felt like it ought to have at least one more player input update.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
How's ASEAN's relationship with the Chinese in universe?
Sorry guys, Shigure Edition still isn't quite ready yet! You can blame a combination of work, the Division, Stellaris, and me recently being bullied by some buddies of mine into trying WoWs!
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
I hope Kasturi and the Spica-M are enjoying the MASSIVE benefit their semi-modern rigging is giving them right now, alongside SPARKLY SHIPGIRL BULLSHIT
>>150671
>How's ASEAN's relationship with the Chinese in universe?
Pretty much the same as it is in real life.
>>150675
So its basically, "We hate you, but we also hate the Abyssals more right now"
>>150671
not great. But they don't know we're chinese (yet), so that's not the issue. The issue is their general incompentance and factionalism.
>>150657
Awesome, that SHARP presentation sounds like it's gonna be good.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>150672
>me recently being bullied by some buddies of mine into trying WoWs!
I've been playing more of it myself recently, but you brave, brave soul
>>150670
yeah, thanks. a cold open on our sub going down like poseidon was getting the last bit of toothpaste would've been harsh.
>>150699
Yes, yes it is time for that.
... I don't have a plotting reaction image on this new computer. I need to fix that.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
Also, if you're joining us for the first time on your phone from a hospital break room? If this is the highlight of your Wednesday night shift?
I'm... sorry.
I'm so sorry.
>>150709
WoWs isn't actually that bad if you accept that it isn't meant to be a simulator game. (I mean, Russian Bias is still a thing but it's nowhere near as bad as in WoT because not even the russians can pretend their navy wasn't shit)
>>150723
Try the dancing Kane gif from Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath.
>>150723
Pics of Gendo Ikari work fine
>>150605
>[X] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>150605
[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
Play for time
>>150605
> Keep your speed up...
Happy 104th birthday Bongou-chan you old bird you!
Also why no shigure pics PF?
Also,
>>150592
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Kant-O-Celle%20Quest
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Kant-O-Celle%20Quest
The SB transcript is top fucking notch but I still strongly think you should link the good old sup/tg/ ones too.
>>150723
How about a Mr. Burns "Excellent"?
>>150732
Well I'm joining you from my laptop in the break room of one of the wards here at my new hospital, there are... 6 other people in here with me on their phones watching this thread as well. Congrats Deme, you have begun the corruption of a second nursing department.
>>150767
Are you going by when she was launched or when she was completed? If so, she was completed August 16, 1913.
>>150775
>you have begun the corruption of a second nursing department.
WELL WELL THAT'S JUST SWELL
Votes called, writing, etc.
>>150775
>Deme's face when
>>150775
>>150793
Even going by that she'd be 103....and still unwed.
>>150793
She was launched 104 years ago today. KONGOU-RATULATIONS, YOU CHRISTMAS CAKE!
>>150740
Oh I know it's not that bad. I've admittedly grown increasingly disillusioned with high-tier gameplay, but mid tiers are actually pretty fun.
>>150785
You... don't know Mr. Burns?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKUOB8MN4Kc
>>150785
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fXgOeCdYME
Correction: Vanilla Tib Wars
>>150796
How long before the congressional hearing on sabotage of military productivity fapangel?
>>150768
I have a few.
![hIZOesk[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Ak8VVhu.jpg "hIZOesk[1].jpg")
>>150798
Oh, actually, speaking of SWQ, look what I found on an almost-entirely-unrelated google search the other day
>>150808
Mid tiers is where it's at. My cleveland and clemson are my most played ships.
>>150819
What, how....
>>150723
>Yes, yes it is time for that.
No, it is time for CHUUNI POSTING
>>150775
Out of curiosity, did you give them a sitrep on this or are they coming in ass-cold? Because if the latter, oh. Oh god. Oh god.
>>150767
Happy two days prior to your 77th Birthday Chikuma, happy tomorrow is your 84th birthday Sazanami, happy two days belated 72nd birthday Kiyoshimo, I'm sorry for not saying it earlier, but Shimakaze's 73rd birthday was three weeks ago. Happy belated 71st birthday Odake
>>150826
Negative friend.
It's time for Showboat.
>>150834
>I'm sorry for not saying it earlier, but Shimakaze's 73rd birthday was three weeks ago.
Too Slow!
>>150850
Destroyers and cruisers, with battleships being last among equals. My username references the Battle off Samar. I'm trying to get to the fletcher.
>>150832
The sitrep only works if they listen...
>>150592
NEW THREAD!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBYxPsvbEIg
>>150870
>>150850
I suppose. I have just been thoroughly uninterested in high tiers, and have a lot more fun playing my Myoko and Nicholas. The Mogami and Atago are alright, but once Iowas, North Carolinas, and Yamatos are starting to shoot at you, sailing cruisers becomes a lot less fun
>>150850
I play a bit of everything. Langley, New York, Clemson, Farragut, and Cleveland
>>150877
All I have left is the Atlanta, Colorado, and Benson because I had to sell everything else to get that far.
>>150857
ARE YOU ME
I've already worked up to Clemson and am enjoying utterly outgunning every other DD I come across.
>>150879
really? I haven't had any money problems yet, (though I haven't gotten beyond T6). For me, the limiting factor has always been XP. What I get for splitting myself over 4 different lines I suppose.
>>150887
Clemson is love. Clemson is life. Clemson's torpedoes are reloaded now - have a nice death.
>>150879
>Needing to sell off all your ships for only a Colorado and Benson
>When you have a goddamn Atlanta for credit farming
I wasn't aware it was even possible to be that bad at the game.
>>150888
I refuse to pay to pay for gold and it gets so exponentially expensive the higher you go. I had to sell all my (I got to tier IV on all lines) Japanese ships, russian ships, and german ships, though the last two weren't a particular loss (looking at you Karlsruhe and Derski)
>>150900
I haven't payed for anything yet. I think I just haven;t hit the cliff yet.
>>150826
It is always time for Chunni posting!
>>150811
Oh... The Simpsons. I know why I don't know him now.
>>150832
Cold for the most part. I'm updating them as needed and pointing them at Chains work otherwise. Also, stepped out for some food but the DFAC is closed, so I had an MRE, and more blessed fucking Ranger Coffee.
>>150823
I have a Cleve, Minekaze, Kongo, Fuso, and Konigsberg as my non-prem keepers. I also have a Warspite, Atlanta, Sims, Ark Beta, Gremynychy(?), Murmansk, Tachibana, Yubari, Atago, Emden, and Tirpitz as my other keepers.
>>150888
Obtain Atago, obtain munny, pan paka pan~
>>150900
>>150907
You're not hitting truly making-a-loss-per-game crap until you hit tier IX, at least with the current economy.
Gold isn't anywhere near necessary if you do a decent amount of damage per game, even at Tier VIII.
Also-
>Tossing the Karlshruhe
>Without getting the Königsberg first
The Königsberg is one of the best non-premium credit earners in the game; with it's goddamn 6" Super-AP machineguns.
Do your research, m8
>>150657
SHARP time?
>>150935
Everything will soon be Daijoubu
>>150911
Oh, and forgot my Aurora.
For as many accusations of Russian bias in the game as there are, they pretty shit ships over all. But then again Russia hasn't been able to navy very well throughout most of history.
>>150934
Agreed with this man. Then again, I have 38 ships in my port for that game with a decent number of them being premium. That being said, Colorado and Pensacola can print money pretty. Hell, a lot of T7s can.
A North Carolina with Concealment Expert isn't just funny and efficient. It's also historically accurate.
This madness, we have only begun to delve into it and we are enjoying it. Blessed be to planefag. Trust in planefag.
>>150900
I only sell things because I have no room in the port for them, but then again I had 10mil at one point because of the Kamikaze R pearl event
>>150910
I do not envy them or Deme at this point, I at least had the archives and DBC's transcripts to mostly catch up
>>150934
>Got Murmansk on sale, never uses it
>>150946
I magazine a Kirov from the front with my Kongou once
>>150948
Now there is an interesting thing to note... apparently IDs are based off of IP and not individual Items and Damn it you fuck, could you not use my trip.
>>150937
I know, you showed it to me on SB, Colonel.
also chunni.
>>150954
Is it one of the nurses or is it your son again?
>>150948
>>150954
I am going to enjoy this *soooooo much*
>>150951
>I magazine a Kirov from the front with my Kongou once
Kirov you say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_RS8Cm-PU
>>150954
>Sharing your tripcode with other people
>>150951
>I magazine a Kirov from the front with my Kongou once
Let's be fair, a DD can magazine a Kirov from most angles. A 2" armour scheme is thin enough to be basically pointless.
I wonder how big planefag's rage boner is that we're talking about ~that game~ in his threads.
>>150954
>ijn-tier damage control
Why'd you make a new thread PF
>>130392 is still on page 7 it'll be up for another week or so on this shit board
You could just keep going with it and avoid artificially inflating the number of quest threads here
>>150968
Kirov you Say?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSnXNDOQyV0
>>150978
image limit
>>150768
I was disappointed to discover that she only carries her turret on her back, and fires it the same way as most destroyers.
I wonder when planefag will take a temporary detour and do Goto's character arc with Aoba.
I mean, you know, we've had it coming for a while now.
>>150977
Meh, shit happens.
Spaghetti ships when?
>>150767
Shigure also turned 81 today!
>>151002
We must learn the ancient art of counter trolling
>>150998
what exactly were you hoping for?
>>150966
What is with this. Like seriously what is with this?! Why does everyone keep commenting on this "chunni" or "chunnimomboat" and the Colonel. Please, give us some ammo. Anything, please.
>>150605
>[ ] Keep your speed up and keep tacking away from them - in water this shallow they'll find you sooner or later. You've got a maneuverable boat, loud decoys and a noisy surface duct to work with. Buy time to reload your tubes, and keep taking standoff-range shots to keep them busy till help arrives. ASEAN would have to be deaf not to notice this brawl.
>>151031
No
>>151031
Your boss likes Tenryuu. She, and her sister, are chunni. So they're known as chunnibotes.
Chunnibotes must be posted to win the Colonel's pleasure whenever he joins the thread.
pic related
The silence from my nurses worries me.
>>151031
newfags lurk more reeeeeeee, etc.
>>151020
Shoulder cannons, duh.
>>151037
We aren't supposed to encourage them anon
>>151031
Use chunniboats to acquire favor from your boss. Offer the best and he miiiiiiight say something nice about you. Probably only a one-time deal.
>>151038
They're obviously microwaving gel packs.
Or making an oxygen bar out of some "surplus" intubation gear and an O2 line.
>>151031
Get back to work, newfag.
Uncle Sam didn't give you that job so you could shitpost.
>>151038
Have you informed them what happened to the last batch due to a certain email?
Maybe you can scare them straight.
>>151031
This, this is why it worries me.
>>151037
I hate you so much right now.
>>151041
They're all going back to work now!
>>151038
It probably should. I've never seen anything good come out of a group of nurses that wasn't raising a ruckus.
For no particular reason a long-forgotten quotation from an American skipper surfaces in your mind - “when you shoot at a destroyer and miss, it's like hitting a wildcat in the ass with a banjo.” These two seem like wolves - you see one bearing peel away from its neighbor as the other closes fast.
“They're using hunter-killer,” your XO says grimly. You nod silent agreement. One's peeling off to maintain standoff, drifting while it bangs away with active to guide the other in on your position via radio. Turn your bow towards the spotter, and the killer's own sonar gets a good bounce off your broadside. Simple, lethal, and effective.
But you've got a few toys the U-boats never had. As the first boat comes in hard and fast for its depth-charge run, you order a course splitting the angle between your persecutors. When the abyssal's close enough to make out his machinery noises, you make your move.
“Hard to starboard!”
Your helmsman puts her hard over, turning your stern towards the spotter ship. There's a soft “bump” sound as your signaling tubes fire - an active sonar decoy slipping into the water in your wake. More than a simple noisemaker, it generates a cloud of bubbles that forms an effective “knuckle,” a knot of turbulence that reflects sound waves.
“Emergency back!”
305 shudders slightly as her shaft's inertia fights the new pull of the motors - and then the screws begin digging in backwards, slowing your forward progress. The abyssal thunders overhead, blinded by his speed as he strains to outrace his own -
- “depth charges,” your sonarman reports, sounding a bit incredulous, despite hundreds of tons of high explosive sinking towards you. Not even ASEAN still uses them regularly. Every asshole on board clenches tight for the first thunderous, muffled blasts.
The first detonation lifts you an inch off your feet, your teeth clicking together sharply. The second lifts 305s bow, pitching men against bulkheads. Then you stop counting, the hammerblows thundering through the water to crash into the pressure hull from all sides. You hunch your shoulders instinctively, dreading the next blast, even though you know a direct hit will kill you before you realize what happened.
Then it ends, the Abyssal's churning screws fading into the distance.
“Damage!?” you demand.
“Minor flooding in fore torpedo. Chief says they're good to keep loading.”
They'd better be, you think. The spotter's charging in now, taking his turn at bat as the other one cuts engines and drifts, guiding him in on his attack run. The first battering told you one thing - they've got K-guns to spread their depth charge pattern out to each side, the better to catch tricky maneuvers like yours. They saw your turn, but were only able to range on the knuckle. You can't possibly stop dead in the water, so they assumed signal degradation from the end-on aspect and assumed you held same speed-
“They're old,” Wei says.
“What,” you growl, eyes still fixed on the incoming destroyer's plot.
“No standoff. No torpedoes. Not even hedgehogs,” he says. “They don't know about active decoys and they think we accelerate half as good as we do. World War One - early Two, maybe.”
“Yes, and?” you ask pointedly, sweat trickling down your brow.
“They're not stupid. They're going to figure it out.”
The second destroyer comes in for its run, the plot clocking her at thirty-seven knots. You order a hard-right turn early this time. Your helmsman keeps his brass wheel spinning like a dervish, snapping it opposite when you bark at him, “knuckle!” Rapid fluttering of the rudder churning the water into turbulent false contacts periodically through your emergency turn, giving the impression of a longer, continuous contact. Another turn to the left - more flutters, more knuckles - and you hold this one, pointing your bow at the distant spotter long enough to launch a decoy.
>>151061
>I hate you so much right now.
No, you love me. Because dat sweet chunnibote stern.
“Bring us up!”
“SIR!?”
“UP, DAMMIT! UP!”
Your crewmen are already responding, 305 pitching her nose up as she claws for the misty surface. Above, your enemy has already picked which cluster of contacts look most promising and is attacking, charges splashing into the water.
Every man on the bridge jumps off the deck when something clangs against the sail. There's a few brief, sonorous clunks down the side, not four feet to your left. Twenty later God kicks 305 in the ass, your boat shuddering violently as the charge detonates below you, fuzed for your old depth.
“Sir, we've got a shaft or a prop off-balance!” comes the DC report. “Engineering recommends limiting speed to 17 knots!”
Your XO gives you a stern look. You read the unspoken truth in his eyes - you can't keep this up very long. Twice your enemy's passed ahead, and your only live fish are astern.
[ ] Let him get you dead to rights with a lengthwise run from astern and take the snapshot. Do or die.
[ ] You can keep it up a little longer. Just a little longer. These bastards aren't smarter than you.
[ ] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
>>151052
NCOs have been saying that for over a hundred fucking years and it hasn't done them a damn bit of good either, anon!
>>151079
>[ ] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
>>151079
>[X] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
>>151076
This is not stern, it's bow, and yes I do enjoy this.
>>151079
>[ ] You can keep it up a little longer. Just a little longer. These bastards aren't smarter than you.
I say again: fuuuuuuuuuuck
>>151079
>[ ] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
Wonder where Hate and Naka are? Probably trying to put out (literal?) fires after people keep calling Kongou old
>>151079
>[ ] Put some wind up their asses.
If they're WW1 era shit they probably have no idea that most subs can shoot out their ass ends.
>>151076
Tatsuta's smug lusty look gives me creepy Miang vibes.
>mfw nobody will recognize anything Xenogears
>>151079
[ ] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
>>151095
You say that like there's any other Miang anyone will think of.
>>151095
Xenogear a shit, post Getter Robo
>>151079
>[x] Let him get you dead to rights with a lengthwise run from astern and take the snapshot. Do or die.
>>151079
>[x] You can keep it up a little longer. Just a little longer. These bastards aren't smarter than you.
but man, reloading the forward tubes must be a pain in the dick with the boat pointing nose up and leaping around
>>151126
>>151079
>[ ] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
We can force at least one of them to run away again, and buy ourselves some more breathing room.
>>151079
[ ] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
>>151138
Suez.jpg
>>151079
>[X] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
>>151126
explain
>>151079
>[ ] Let him get you dead to rights with a lengthwise run from astern and take the snapshot. Do or die.
CHANNEL THE MANLET! DO AS SAM DEALEY WOULD DO!
>>151153
Is it me or there's been way less posts since the move to /qst/.
>>151173
no more vote stuffing anon
>>151079
>[ ] Let him get you dead to rights with a lengthwise run from astern and take the snapshot. Do or die.
>>151173
fewer random people jumping in to shitpost
>>151175
I don't just mean shitposting and vote stuffing.
Also, to any actual submariners who may stumble across this at some future date: this is a semi-modern SSK dueling WWII era ASW technology employed by spooky ghost ships so this bullshit here is semi-informed bullshit thank you very muchno not really fuck
>>151153
Manhandling large pieces of ordnance in a small space while the now wet floor is changing angles and accelerating randomly in three dimensions
>>151173
Last thread still got up to 103 IPs, but it has felt a bit more sedate
>[X]Let him get you dead to rights with a lengthwise run from astern and take the snapshot. Do or die.
Captain's footsie game on point
>Captcha is botes
>>151157
We are not Sam Dealy and we are also a much bigger target than the manlet, we don't have the same room for error that he gets (especially with leveling effect), and we're in a fucking Ming-class running half the speed of the enemy (which is admittedly faster than Harder can move underwater).
>>151184
>Manhandling large pieces of ordnance in a small space while the now wet floor is changing angles and accelerating randomly in three dimensions
NO NO, THE PICTURE, THE GODDAMN PICTURE
>>151094
Stern tubes were definitely a thing during WWI, anon.
>>151190
After a quick google search it shows its an ad by a insurance company.
>>151141
I remember the Suez. My entire department got together to remind the CO to wait for high tide to pass through in order to avoid filling the condensers with sand.
Well, technically we all talked to the RO and had HIM talk to the CO, because we all know COs don't listen to enlisted below master chief, but the sentiment was there.
>>151181
Do they get internet access on SSBNs?
>>151190
Art installation. Top section of sub is sitting on top of solid ground.
>>151190
> He doesn't know about the Top Secret Land Submarines.
What next, you don't know about America's spacefighter program either?
>>151153
this being an old shitty sub i'm assuming torpedos are still held in cradles and shoved into the tubes 'handraulically' by six or eight beefy dudes with an overhead crane on a track, and the cunting thing has no inbuilt provision for dragging the slung torpedo uphill into the tube.
>>151187
>We are not Sam Dealy and we are also a much bigger target than the manlet,
Actually the Ming class is a bit smaller than a Gato - considerably shorter, a little narrower and with a much deeper draft, because the hull's shaped to optimize underwater performance. And it's only 500 tons heavier.
The maneuvers you've been pulling off here are ones far in excess of what Harder can do - with 18 knots at flank to work with you're considerably more maneuverable than Harder at 8, and your boat's much more nimble in the water due to modern design.
By the same token, your torpedoes are kind of shit by any standard, and the spooky ghost effects have guaranteed that they're even worse. Passive-only? Russia pls
>>151208
At least Yu-4s are a big torpedo.
So how does everyone think Settle would handle the Cardboard Battleship Destroyer Kiyoshimo?
>>150961
Good pictures, but I've seen all those on danbooru. Everyone's been to danbooru. If you want to find new ones nobody's ever posted before, you'll have to go to the source - Pixiv.
>>151213
4-Yu
I'm sorry.
>>151222
That'sthejoke.jpg
>>151213
>At least Yu-4s are a big torpedo.
You're a pretty funny guy.I'll kill you first.
VOTES FREAKIN CALLED
>>151215
Her birthday was two days ago.
[ ] Put some wind up their asses. See how aggressive they are after fleeing another fish.
Evasion is getting slowly shut down and we need the proper forward spread to better ensure a kill. Buy time now, do-or-die with more torpedoes next round.
>>151219
Twitter is one of the better sources these days. Artists have a habit of uploading there first before pivix.
Only problem is following them and sorting through all there chatter.
>>151243
>sleepers know to warp to the fucking sun
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
>>151255
They really improved drifter and sleeper AI in recent days. Those fuckers will warp after you if you manage to get away from them at first.
>>151208
interesting. Very interesting. But harder does have one major advantage and that's his deck armament.
But still, physically we are indeed a larger target than Harder because he normally doesn't manifest his hull in combat, heck I'm not sure if he's manifested his hull period, so essentially an Abyssal depth charging the manlet has to hit a target the size of your average scuba diver instead of one the size of a semi truck
>>151203
SSBNs rotate between two crews to maximize uptime. While one crew is out at sea, the other is on land for training and a bit of R&R. Then the sub pulls into port, both crews unite to restock the sumbitch, and the other crew takes it out to sea while the one hangs out above the waterline.
TL;DR there are always SSBN crews with internet access.Pretty sure the ones at sea don't have access, because their entire sea tours pretty much consist of "be sneaky so that people don't know where we're hiding enough nukes to glass their asses", but I was a carrier boy so don't take my word for it.
>>151263
No, the kanmusu still provide full-sized targets when they're girls. Somehow. at least while they're in the water. It's fucking weird, ok?
>>151270
I'm not even going to question how that works. Its probably better for my sanity anyways that I don't.
>>151264
>I was a carrier boy
What'd you do?
>>151219
pixiv is japanese deviantart desu
most of the good stuff ends up in the boorus eventually
>>151281
It works the same way that Musashi can hold 18.1" shells between her fingers, the same way that Settle can lift a 14" shell with his hands, and the same way that an F-18 could land on a Japanese aircraft carrier.
>>151262
Is this a Stellaris thing?
>>151281
>>151297
Also the same way that shipgirls can produce full-size wakes while still being able to stand side-by-side in the water.
It's fucking weird.
>>151300
EVE Online
>>151300
EVE Online.
>>151287
I stood around in a machinery room taking logs and hoping none of my indications changed too much for five hour stretches every twenty hours. Also, janitorial and maintenance duties.Since I was trained for nuclear power plant stuff, I was incredibly overpromoted. Made MM1 in five years, and left at the six year mark because it was literally driving me insane.
>>151300
EVE.
>>151297
>the same way that an F-18 could land on a Japanese aircraft carrier
That was outright stated to be the result of leveling effect in the story.
The rest are still good examples of spooky not even barely understood bullshit
>>151326
These offerings continue to please me.
>>151334
>>151342
I dunno how I feel about that.
>>151334
pic related.
I'm just gonna assume that Hate is either too busy putting out fires (metaphorical and literal) to post, or hes laying low after Saturday's tsunderine picture after realizing it could be used as bait.
Which of the shipgirls is most likely to sexually assault Settle?
>>151349
WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB
>>151356
Any of the Yandere ones that aren't interested in Goto or Hate
>>151356
Hiyashimo
The chuuniest.
>>151353
I figure pic related is what the major sees from time to time?
Huh, just crossed my mind that when the chunnis are back to health, what happened to Naka might tickle Tenryuus chunni instincts.
After all, during the battle at Sunda Straits Naka basically embraced her dark side ('inner darkness', to go full chunni) for a last-minute powerup.
>>151353
>Trying to court my favor for something there anon?
No I just needed a good reason to offload my Tenryuu collection.
>>151356
Hayashimo?
>>151353
How about something a little less lewd?
captcha is boats. Because of course it is.
>>151401
>Carry on then!
Will do!
>>151402
How about adorable?
>>151369
Its still better understood than anything else related to ship spirits
>>151356
Jun'you.
>>151401
>>151410
Maybe we should stop? What's the image limit here?
>>151420
Around 300 images. We're still good.
>>151423
>>151401
Well in that case!
>>151423
It's either 300 or 350, I can't remember which.
>>151416
>>151425
>Shimakaze's swimsuit is literally her normal outfit minus the skirt
lol
Did you all see the guy who just posted and almost immediately got his post trimmed.
>Don't be that guy.
>>151428
Don't reply, just report and move on.
is it Tenryuu-time now?
>>151443
Nothing happened, just move along.
>>151443
Break some of 4chan's most fundamental rules.
>>151451
And possibly US federal law
![870800f42a1f7e7240c50ecfdd93cb92[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/E1tMA5H.jpg "870800f42a1f7e7240c50ecfdd93cb92[1].png")
>>151443
Tried to dox someone on SB
>>151447
It's always Tenryuu time.
>>151441
So you like cute chibichunni?
>>151447
It is ALWAYS tenryuu time.
>>151447
It's ALWAYS Tenryuu Time!
>>151455
I count laws as part of the most fundamental rules, since they can get the server shut down. But yeah, it's good to specify.
Except now Imma post the other chunniboat!
>>151460
How do you feel about chunnicosplayers?
![cdc23945f4ded782c86e3eb2e8184707[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/mKKaWMM.jpg "cdc23945f4ded782c86e3eb2e8184707[1].png")
Sisters are fine too.
>>151480
Kiso. One of the Kuma-class.
As the other destroyer turns in to begin its attack run, a strange feeling starts buzzing through your blood. You can feel the fear surging through your veins; the ice-cold grip of fanatical discipline beaten into you in officer candidacy school - even the quiet, instinctive voice reminding you that the Political Officer is always watching. But this strange thrumming through your being is new. Something's resonating deep within, something about this whole thing that your heart's realized before your head.
“Hard to starboard!” 305 comes about neatly, swinging her bow towards the new spotter ship, giving the new attacker a good look at your broadside.
“All astern full!” you order. There's a brief exchange of puzzled glances, but it doesn't slow any hands as they comply with your order. Your boat continues to swing through its turn, bow turning end-on to the cold, chilling pings echoing off your hull - and past, towards the attacking destroyer approaching at a right-angle to his fellow. 305s batteries are discharging fast, screws fighting your inertia. You're too slow, now - and you're about to be run down. Eyes flicker towards you nervously, then back to their gauges as the rapid beating of the destroyer's cavitating props grows loud enough to hear unaided, thrumming through the hull. You watch the tactical plot keenly, waiting for the forty-five degree arc behind your boat to intersect the enemy-
“Fire Seven!” you command, and a second later a Yu-4 is thundering into the water from your stern tube. Screaming in at flank speed the attacker doesn't hear it, but his buddy does - you hear him taking evasive action immediately, heeling into a hard emergency turn to put his stern to the incoming fish. The tight turn robs him of speed, and with your close-range launch, chances are good you can catch him.
“He's using decoys,” one of your torpedomen grunts, gritting his teeth as he focuses on his osiliscope. “Like before. Maybe a jackhammer, too.”
“What?”
“Early acoustic jammer,” he replies. Apparently he does read the briefings. “I could use active-”
“Do it,” you say, and a second later your own sonars are banging away, pinpointing your own fish, the fleeing destroyer and his decoys. The flank sonar arrays are more precise than the bow-mounted transducer; and your crew trained in recognizing the devices - your man threads his fish carefully through the decoys and into the wake of the fleeing destroyer. You watch his instruments carefully, resisting the urge to cross the control room and hover over his shoulder - he knows what he's doing, and all you can do is distract him.
“FUCK!” he snarls, squeezing his trigger to detonate the fish before he slams a fist into the console. “He was outrunning me. I was this close. I might've dinged his prop. I didn't. FUCK!”
“Doesn't matter,” you reply.
“... sir?” Wei asks.
>>151480
>Who is this?
Kuma class Torpedo cruiser Kiso!
“We're sailing backwards now,” you point out. A sub sails almost as fast in reverse as it does forward, due to its streamlined shape - at least an old, noisy screw-propelled job like this one, that is. And after all the Excitement you just gave your friends in an already noisy surface duct, you doubt they cottoned to you swapping end for end.
They know you spent your fish - six forward tubes were standard in their day, as well - which is why they're taking pains to stay out of your stern arc at close ranges, even if playing it safe means putting their pattern down too distant to kill you. They've got you in the shallows, and they think they've got all day.
“Here they come again,” Wei announces - and indeed they are, charging hard. They know how long it takes to load a tube, too - and they figure you just loosed your shot soon as it was nocked. They're safe for another several minutes, for at least two or three more runs - so they're both coming in now, line abreast. It's what you with particularly stubborn contacts - a rain of explosives too wide and long to escape.
“Make heading one-one-four degrees,” you order calmly.
The range ticks down rapidly as you sail backwards from the Abyssals closing for the decisive blow. They circle to the right, then cut in sharply once they're clear of your supposed stern arc. Again you turn your “bow” to them at close range to cloak your evasives against their sonar - but they've slowed to twenty-five knots or so to keep contact with you, confident that you've blown your wad.
“Fire Eight!”
Hiss-whump.
“STARBOARD!” you bark, but the helmsman's already hurling his wheel to sidestep the incoming enemies even as your fish roars through the water. They both hear it coming, turning hard to evade - but your target catches the fish halfway through her turn. The thunderous blast reverberates off the shallow bottom to grumble against the keel of your boat, mingling with the volcanic growling of Krakatoa's deep subsurface caldera not twenty miles distant.
“All ahead full!” you order, “and hard starboard!” Tube #1 will be ready in moments-
- but the abyssal isn't inclined to give you them. “Contact is inbound at thirty-four knots, estimate nine-hundred-”
“Ping!” you order, and the ping rings out from your bow array -
“SIX HUNDRED AND CLOSING-”
[ ] Emergency deep - sound the collision horn!
[ ] Emergency surface - turn into the son of a bitch.
[ ] Emergency back full!
>>151499
[ ] Emergency back full!
>>151499
>[X] Emergency surface - turn into the son of a bitch.
>>151499
>[ ] Emergency back full!
>>151499
>[x] Emergency surface - turn into the son of a bitch.
Time for some accurate simulation of submarine warfare shit.
>>151480
>>151499
>[ X ] Emergency surface - turn into the son of a bitch.
>>151499
>[ ] Emergency surface - turn into the son of a bitch.
>>151499
>[X] Emergency back full!
